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Steiner's Hat: a Constant-Area Deltoid Associated with the Ellipse STEINER’S HAT: A CONSTANT-AREA DELTOID ASSOCIATED WITH THE ELLIPSE RONALDO GARCIA, DAN REZNIK, HELLMUTH STACHEL, AND MARK HELMAN Abstract. The Negative Pedal Curve (NPC) of the Ellipse with respect to a boundary point M is a 3-cusp closed-curve which is the affine image of the Steiner Deltoid. Over all M the family has invariant area and displays an array of interesting properties. Keywords curve, envelope, ellipse, pedal, evolute, deltoid, Poncelet, osculat- ing, orthologic. MSC 51M04 and 51N20 and 65D18 1. Introduction Given an ellipse with non-zero semi-axes a,b centered at O, let M be a point in the plane. The NegativeE Pedal Curve (NPC) of with respect to M is the envelope of lines passing through points P (t) on the boundaryE of and perpendicular to [P (t) M] [4, pp. 349]. Well-studied cases [7, 14] includeE placing M on (i) the major− axis: the NPC is a two-cusp “fish curve” (or an asymmetric ovoid for low eccentricity of ); (ii) at O: this yielding a four-cusp NPC known as Talbot’s Curve (or a squashedE ellipse for low eccentricity), Figure 1. arXiv:2006.13166v5 [math.DS] 5 Oct 2020 Figure 1. The Negative Pedal Curve (NPC) of an ellipse with respect to a point M on the plane is the envelope of lines passing through P (t) on the boundary,E and perpendicular to P (t) M. Left: When M lies on the major axis of , the NPC is a two-cusp “fish” curve. Right: When− M is at the center of , the NPC is 4-cuspE curve with 2-self intersections known as Talbot’s Curve [12]. For the particularE aspect ratio a/b = 2, the two self-intersections are at the foci of . E Date: May, 2020. 1 2 R.GARCIA,D.REZNIK,H.STACHEL,ANDM.HELMAN Figure 2. Left: The Negative Pedal Curve (NPC, purple) of with respect to a boundary point ′ E M is a 3-cusped (labeled Pi ) asymmetric curve (called here “Steiner’s Hat”), whose area is invariant over M, and whose asymmetric shape is affinely related to the Steiner Curve [12]. ∆u(t) is the ′ instantaneous tangency point to the Hat. Right: The tangents at the cusps points Pi concur at ′ C2, the Hat’s center of area, furthermore, Pi, Pi ,C2 are collinear. Video: [10, PL#01] As a variant to the above, we study the family of NPCs with respect to points M on the boundary of . As shown in Figure 2, this yields a family of asymmetric, constant-area 3-cuspedE deltoids. We call these curves “Steiner’s Hat” (or ∆), since under a varying affine transformation, they are the image of the Steiner Curve (aka. Hypocycloid), Figure 3. Besides these remarks, we’ve observed: Main Results: The triangle T ′ defined by the 3 cusps Pi′ has invariant area over M, Fig- • ure 7. The triangle T defined by the pre-images P of the 3 cusps has invariant area • i over M, Figure 7. The Pi are the 3 points on such that the corresponding tangent to the envelope is at a cusp. E The T are a Poncelet family with fixed barycenter; their caustic is half the • size of , Figure 7. E Let C2 be the center of area of ∆. Then M, C2, P1, P2, P3 are concyclic, • Figure 7. The lines P C are tangents at the cusps. i − 2 Each of the 3 circles passing through M, P , P ′, i = 1, 2, 3, osculate at • i i E Pi, Figure 8. Their centers define an area-invariant triangle T ′′ which is a half-size homothety of T ′. The paper is organized as follows. In Section 3 we prove the main results. In Sections 4 and 5 we describe properties of the triangles defined by the cusps and their pre-images, respectively. In Section 6 we analyze the locus of the cusps. In Section 6.1 we characterize the tangencies and intersections of Steiner’s Hat with the ellipse. In Section 7 we describe properties of 3 circles which osculate the ellipse at the cusp pre-images and pass through M. In Section 8 we describe relationships between the (constant-area) triangles with vertices at (i) cusps, (ii) cusp pre-images, and (iii) centers of osculating circles. In Section 9 we analyze a fixed-area deltoid obtained from a “rotated” negative pedal curve. The paper concludes in Section 10 with a table of illustrative videos. Appendix A provides STEINER’S HAT: A CONSTANT-AREA DELTOID 3 Figure 3. Two systems which generate the 3-cusp Steiner Curve (red), see [2] for more methods. Left: The locus of a point on the boundary of a circle of radius 1 rolling inside another of radius 3. Right: The envelope of Simson Lines (blue) of a triangle T (black) with respect to points P (t) on the Circumcircle [12]. Q(t) denotes the corresponding tangent. Nice properties include (i) the area of the Deltoid is half that of the Circumcircle, and (ii) the 9-point circle of T (dashed green) centered on X5 (whose radius is half that of the Circumcircle) is internally tangent to the Deltoid [13, p.231]. explicit coordinates for cusps, pre-images, and osculating circle centers. Finally, Appendix B lists all symbols used in the paper. 2. Preliminaries Let the ellipse be defined implicitly as: E x2 y2 (x, y)= + 1=0, c2 = a2 b2 E a2 b2 − − where a>b> 0 are the semi-axes. Let a point P (t) on its boundary be parametrized as P (t) = (a cos t,b sin t). Let P = (x ,y ) R2. Consider the family of lines L(t) passing through P (t) 0 0 0 ∈ and orthogonal to P (t) P0. Its envelope ∆ is called antipedal or negative pedal curve of . − ConsiderE the spatial curve defined by (P )= (x,y,t): L(t,x,y)= L′(t,x,y)=0 . L 0 { } The projection (P0) = π( (P0)) is the envelope. Here π(x,y,t) = (x, y). In general, (P ) isE regular, butL (P ) is a curve with singularities and/or cusps. L 0 E 0 Lemma 1. The envelope of the family of lines L(t) is given by: 1 x(t)= [(ay sin t ab)x by2 cos t c2y sin(2t) w 0 − 0 − 0 − 0 b + ((5a2 b2)cos t c2 cos(3t))] 4 − − 1 y(t)= [ ax2 sin t + (by cos t + c2 sin(2t))x aby w − 0 0 0 − 0 a (1) ((5a2 b2) sin t c2 sin(3t)] − 4 − − 4 R.GARCIA,D.REZNIK,H.STACHEL,ANDM.HELMAN where w = ab bx cos t ay sin t. − 0 − 0 Proof. The line L(t) is given by: (x a cos t)x + (y b sin t)y + a2 cos2 t + b2 sin2 t ax cos t by sin t =0 0 − 0 − − 0 − 0 Solving the linear system L(t)= L′(t)=0 in the variables x, y leads to the result. Triangle centers will be identifed below as Xk following Kimberling’s Encyclope- dia [6], e.g., X1 is the Incenter, X2 Barycenter, etc. 3. Main Results Proposition 1. The NPC with respect to Mu = (a cos u,b sin u) a boundary point of is a 3-cusp closed curve given by ∆ (t) = (x (t),y (t)), where E u u u 1 x (t)= c2(1 + cos(t + u))cos t a2 cos u u a − 1 (2) y (t)= c2 cos t sin(t + u) c2 sin t a2 sin u u b − − Proof. It is direct consequence of Lemma 1 with P0 = Mu. Expressions for the 3 cusps Pi′ in terms of u appear in Appendix A. Remark 1. As a/b 1 the ellipse becomes a circle and ∆ shrinks to a point on the boundary of said circle.→ Remark 2. Though ∆ can never have three-fold symmetry, for Mu at any ellipse vertex, it has axial symmetry. Remark 3. The average coordinates C¯ = [¯x(u), y¯(u)] of ∆u w.r.t. this parametriza- tion are given by: 1 2π (a2 + b2) x¯(u)= x (t) dt = cos u 2π u − 2a Z0 1 2π (a2 + b2) (3) y¯(u)= y (t) dt = sin u 2π u − 2b Z0 Theorem 1. ∆u is the image of the 3-cusp Steiner Hypocycloid under a varying affine transformation. S Proof. Consider the following transformations in R2: cos u sin u x rotation: Ru(x, y)= sin u cos u y − ! ! translation: U(x, y) = (x, y)+ C¯ 1 2 2 homothety: D(x, y)= 2 (a b )(x, y). x y − linear map: V (x, y) = ( a , b ) The hypocycloid of Steiner is given by (t) = 2(cos t, sin t)+(cos2t, sin 2t) [7]. Then: S − STEINER’S HAT: A CONSTANT-AREA DELTOID 5 (4) ∆ (t) = [x (t),y (t)] = (U V D R ) (t) u u u ◦ ◦ ◦ u S Thus, Steiner’s Hat is of degree 4 and of class 3 (i.e., degree of its dual). Corollary 1. The area of A(∆) of Steiner’s Hat is invariant over Mu and is given by: (a2 b2)2π c4π (5) A(∆) = − = 2ab 2ab Proof. The area of (t) is xdy =2π. The Jacobian of (U S D R ) given by S S ◦ ◦ ◦ u Equation 4 is constant and equal to c4/4ab. R Noting that the area of is πab, Table 1 shows the aspect ratios a/b of required to produce special area ratios.E E a/b approx. a/b A(∆)/A( ) E 2+ √3 1.93185 1 ϕ = (1+p √5)/2 1.61803 1/2 √2 1.41421 1/4 1 1 0 Table 1.
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